Trade Show Guru

I was going to title this post, “A Lack of Appreciation“, but I decided that sounds too crotchety and negative, so I’ll go with “Remember When“. This post is really just a funny video, with a few introductory comments from yours truly. I’ve never heard of the comedian in this clip, and I’ve never watched [...]

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I’ve got a new post about trade show marketing on the way, but it’s still stuck in my noggin. It has yet to make it out through my fingertips and into my computer. So if you need a trade show marketing fix, you’ll have to read about trade show giveaway pens or trade show zombies. [...]

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Since I just wrote a post about trade show zombies, and not too long before that wrote about trade show booths, I figure I can have a little fun and write about a few things again that have nothing to do with trade shows or trade show marketing. With that in mind, I recently saw [...]

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It snows in the winter. “Duh”, you say? Well, for some of us living on the coast in Southern California, we tend to forget there are four seasons. It’s really not that hard to forget that there is something called “winter”, especially when one has a tomato plant in the backyard that never got pulled [...]

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Just like when you’re designing trade show booths and it’s critical to pick a clear and compelling tag line, when you’re writing a blog post, it’s equally important to pick a clear and compelling post title, preferably with your targeted keywords in it, and with a twist or teaser that will make a reader or [...]

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A week ago my family and I went to a local park. There is a dry stream bed that runs through the park, and we were walking along it exploring when we came across these rock piles. I was stunned. The photograph doesn’t really do them justice. I felt like I had just come across [...]

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I saw an awesome video of a chainsaw-powered B29 bomber model airplane a month or so ago, and filed it away in my memory in the event I might need a “filler post” over the holidays. Well, the day for that filler post has arrived. The video is nothing short of amazing. It takes a [...]

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40 years ago, on Christmas eve, 1968, this famous photo “earthrise” was taken, when mankind saw our tiny blue and white planet from deep space for the first time. No matter how many times I see this photo, every time it gives me chills. Even more so, the story of Apollo 8, inspires and awes [...]

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What is the Ultimate Christmas Gift? I know, but I don’t know. How’s that for a riddle? Isn’t that just the kind of “huh?” answer you’d expect from a guru?
The ultimate Christmas gift is what you get for a person that already has everything they need. It’s the gift somebody needs but doesn’t know they [...]

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I became a huge proponent of CFL (compact fluorescent) light bulbs about three years ago. For those that don’t know, CFL light bulbs are the funny looking twisty type light bulbs. They use about 25% as much electricity as a standard incandescent light bulb, so, for instance, a 25watt CFL puts out as much light [...]

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